The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and SocietyJohn S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg OUP Oxford, 18. ágú. 2011 - 742 síður Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues, social and political reception of climate science, the denial of that science by individuals and organized interests, the nature of the social disruptions caused by climate change, the economics of those disruptions and possible responses to them, questions of human security and social justice, obligations to future generations, policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and governance at local, regional, national, international, and global levels. |
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... (IPCC) famously uses language seeped in uncertainty to qualify its predictions (likely, very likely, virtually certain, etc.), and there are a few dissenting scientists who claim there is little evidence of major and imminent climate ...
... (IPCC) famously uses language seeped in uncertainty to qualify its predictions (likely, very likely, virtually certain, etc.), and there are a few dissenting scientists who claim there is little evidence of major and imminent climate ...
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... (IPCC 2007a), are well mixed in the atmosphere; emissions from any particular location are transported around the Earth in a matter of weeks. Ocean circulation connects far distant parts of the Earth; a slowdown or shutdown of the ...
... (IPCC 2007a), are well mixed in the atmosphere; emissions from any particular location are transported around the Earth in a matter of weeks. Ocean circulation connects far distant parts of the Earth; a slowdown or shutdown of the ...
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... (IPCC 2007a). Extinction of biological species. Climate change is projected to lead to an enhanced rate of extinctions, probably increasing the current, high rate of extinctions by a factor of 10 (MA 2005). Extinctions are irreversible ...
... (IPCC 2007a). Extinction of biological species. Climate change is projected to lead to an enhanced rate of extinctions, probably increasing the current, high rate of extinctions by a factor of 10 (MA 2005). Extinctions are irreversible ...
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... (IPCC 2007b). Developing countries are suffering the impacts of climate change much more than the industrialized world. There are several reasons for this. First, many of the industrialized countries lie in the northern mid- and high ...
... (IPCC 2007b). Developing countries are suffering the impacts of climate change much more than the industrialized world. There are several reasons for this. First, many of the industrialized countries lie in the northern mid- and high ...
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... IPCC reports—the 'gold standard' of scientific information—need to be updated soon after they are published (e.g. Richardson et al. 2009; Steffen 2009). For example, just as the international policy community is gradually coalescing ...
... IPCC reports—the 'gold standard' of scientific information—need to be updated soon after they are published (e.g. Richardson et al. 2009; Steffen 2009). For example, just as the international policy community is gradually coalescing ...
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SCIENCE SOCIETY AND PUBLIC OPINION | 111 |
SOCIAL IMPACTS | 175 |
SECURITY | 249 |
JUSTICE | 293 |
PUBLICS AND MOVEMENTS | 353 |
GOVERNMENT RESPONSES | 429 |
POLICY INSTRUMENTS | 519 |
PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS | 579 |
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE | 609 |
RECONSTRUCTION | 667 |
Name Index | 711 |
Subject Index | 716 |
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